For the purpose of these regulations, certain words and terms used herein are defined as follows:
COLLECTOR STREET
A street which serves or is designed to serve as a trafficway for a neighborhood or as a feeder to a major street.
DEAD-END STREET or CUL-DE-SAC
A street or a portion of a street with only one vehicular traffic outlet.
EASEMENT
The authorization by a property owner for the use by another, and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his property.
ENGINEER or LICENSED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER
A person licensed as a professional engineer by the State of New York.
MAJOR STREET
A street which serves or is designed to serve heavy flows of traffic and which is used primarily as a route for traffic between communities and/or other heavy traffic generating areas.
MAJOR SUBDIVISION
Any subdivision of four or more lots, or any subdivision requiring any new street, road, or extension of municipal facilities.
[Amended 6-6-1989 by L.L. No. 1-1989]
MASTER OR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
A comprehensive plan, prepared by the Planning Board pursuant to § 272-a of the Town Law which indicates the general locations recommended for various functional classes of public works, places and structures and for general physical development of the Town and includes any unit or part of such plan separately prepared and any amendment to such plan or parts therein.
MINOR STREET
A street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting properties.
MINOR SUBDIVISION
Any subdivision not classified as a major subdivision.
[Amended 6-6-1989 by L.L. No. 1-1989]
OFFICIAL MAP
The map established by the Town Board pursuant to § 270 of the Town Law, showing streets, highways, and parks and drainage, both existing and proposed.
PLANNING BOARD or BOARD
The Planning Board of the Town.
PRELIMINARY PLAT
A drawing or drawings clearly marked "preliminary plat" showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision, as specified in Article V, § 134-23, of these regulations, submitted to the Planning Board for the purposes of consideration prior to submission of the plat in final form and of sufficient detail to apprise the Planning Board of the layout of the proposed subdivision.
STREET
Includes streets, roads, avenues, lanes, or other trafficways, between right-of-way lines.
STREET PAVEMENT
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular traffic.
STREET WIDTH
The width of the right-of-way, measured at right angles to the center line of the street.
SUBDIVIDER
Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association, who shall lay out any subdivision or part thereof as defined herein, either for himself or others.
SUBDIVISION
The division of any parcel of land in existence on January 1, 1989, into two or more lots, blocks or sites, with or without streets.
[Amended 6-6-1989 by L.L. No. 1-1989]
SUBDIVISION PLAT or FINAL PLAT
A drawing, in final form, showing a proposed subdivision containing all information or detail required by law and by these regulations to be presented to the Planning Board for approval, and which if approved, may be duly filed or recorded by the applicant in the office of the County Clerk or Register.
SURVEYOR
A person licensed as a land surveyor by the State of New York.
TOWN BOARD
The legislative body of the Town.
TOWN ENGINEER
The duly designated engineer of the Town or position assigned with similar duties.
UNDEVELOPED PLAT
Those plats existing at the time of the enactment of this chapter that have been filed in the office of the County Clerk, where 20% or more of the lots within the plat are unimproved.